Good evening, everyone. Here is a story of my Chinese New Year and something that I have been thinking and observing for weeks, before I posted it here.

About 3 weeks before the Chinese New Year festival was here, my family and I were slowly gearing up for the usual decluttering, house cleaning (from ceiling to floors, furniture, almost everything), house decorations, shopping to stock up the larders and fridges, baking of cookies, more shopping for new clothes, shoes, CNY gifts, change new money at the bank.....phew!....so many things to do and the pressure and stress will build and build until the eve of CNY right up to the Reunion Dinner which I have to cook by myself. A 7-course dinner this year.

Strangely, I noticed that this year, I was not stressed out as usual with all the massive preparations for CNY and was in fact enjoying them...at times, I was getting a bit worried as I was getting too relaxed Anyway, by 1 week before CNY, I was still very calm and taking all my tasks calmly, and although I had literally crawled into bed exhausted every night from all those springcleaning and with my joint pains at their worst, I nevertheless went to bed happy and with peace in my heart. I even have a race with yen1908 with our springcleaning and we were motivating each other along as we went.

Suddenly, I noticed both my 7 mth old SCCs in the West and North sectors of my house were quickly building up a lot of thick crystals at the rim and crystals were even growing down to the plate, despite me cleaning the plate of the crystals. There and then, I knew that the SCCs were "happily" absorbing my stress and tension from the CNY preparations for me and my family this year. In previous years, the tension will be so high that we would be easily irritable and I would be nagging and lamenting away, being a nervous wreck.

Even my kids were enjoying painting the house for the first time, and everyone laughed when we were all starting to look like the colour of the gate when we messed up the paints! Wow, we sure had a lot of fun and laughter this year...

I was so relaxed and happy, that I even baked CNY traditional cookies for the first time in 10 years and the best thing that I was most happiest with was my husband helped me to make those cookies - the first time in our marriage We were happily seated at the table and chit chatting, while preparing the cookies - clearly, my husband must be very relaxed and peaceful enough to make cookies with me, for I think men just have no patience at all to do this Hehe, this.must certainly be the benefit of the SCC-C at NE helping us to be a happy couple, as I remember Master said something like this when yen1908 was walking in the park with her husband under the moonlight 2 weeks before CNY.

During the Chinese New Year, for the first 3 days, we visited so many relatives and friends, took the children to the amusement centres, watched a wonderful movie at the IMAX theatre (largest in the world), ate a lot of good food, and my children got a lot of angpows. Of course, we also gave out a lot of angpows! We had so much fun..

Up til today, there is peace, calm and happiness in my family - something that I cherish a lot as a wife and mother..and for this, I am very thankful to Master for introducing to us the Master FS Techniques, for these are FS techniques that I have never seen elsewhere before and unique only to Master Atan. Clearly, their benefits are felt....if you open the doors of your mind and heart to them.

Here's to inner peace, joy and happiness to us all!

choesf_________________It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving - Mother Teresa

choesfMalaysia

[center]"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do."

Wow ! A touching and ispired story, Choesf ! I can feel and almost " see" what you are relating about. I'm happy for you and add to your gratitude mine too! Love, _________________I am a humble soul - I know Love is a way of living and Peace is a way of walking -- Master atan

rozaliaRomania

[center]"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do."

Dear Choefs,I knew this was going to be a nice story,so,since my two boys needed computer and I needed my morning coffee ,I printed it out and went to kitchen to enjoy my morning And I sure did _________________Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.Victor Frankl

katarinaSerbia

[center]"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do."